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I finally got my wish this year.... The Chairman Dances from Nixon in China. SCV did an even better job than I had hoped for.

Time to lighten it up a little though.

How about some Gilbert and Sullivan.

SCV doing The Mikado. Madison doing The Pirates of Pensance.

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another great one (bluecoats or bd i suppose) would be "the black saint and the sinner lady" suite by charles mingus. mmmm.

i wouldn't complain if more corps played don ellis tunes. i think history has shown that they've been great for drum corps.

Best album ever. I know I might get kinda beat up over this, but I don't really think a drum corps would do it justice. It was originally played the way it was meant to be.

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Best album ever. I know I might get kinda beat up over this, but I don't really think a drum corps would do it justice. It was originally played the way it was meant to be.

perfectly reasonable.....i guess, as is the case with most jazz, some of the longer improv solos might not translate well/be an option on the field. tempos and whatnot probably aren't ideal for the football field either.

thats not the case with the jaga jazzist stuff i mentioned before.....much more melodic and accessible than "standard" jazz. they won the bbc jazz album award in 2002 (for credibility's sake) but are absolutely not a "jazz band" by any definition. check out the song "day" on youtube (perfect start to a show), or "kitty wu" if its an option. "low battery" or even more so "swedenborgske rom" would make great ballads.

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I'm surprised I've never heard of these guys. I like it.

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perfectly reasonable.....i guess, as is the case with most jazz, some of the longer improv solos might not translate well/be an option on the field. tempos and whatnot probably aren't ideal for the football field either.

thats not the case with the jaga jazzist stuff i mentioned before.....much more melodic and accessible than "standard" jazz. they won the bbc jazz album award in 2002 (for credibility's sake) but are absolutely not a "jazz band" by any definition. check out the song "day" on youtube (perfect start to a show), or "kitty wu" if its an option. "low battery" or even more so "swedenborgske rom" would make great ballads.

Man this is awesome. Thank you for posting!

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I think that the Cadets should play HIGH SCHOOL THE MUSICAL! I totally want to see them dancing with basketballs, on top of lunch room tables. Yes Sir. Make my dreams come true Georgey old boy.

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thanks for taking the time to check them out, guys. unbelievably innovative/intellectual music coming from way up there in scandinavia.....pass the word on if at all possible, i suppose.

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Maurice Durufle's Requiem...some pretty cool stuff, but I dont really know how the pope would react.

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I'll echo those who have already said David Gillingham's "Galactic Empires."

Akutagawa: Music for Symphony Orchestra, Mvt. II

Bantock: Thalaba the Destroyer

Baratta: Lullaby

Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin

Bax: Overture to a Picaresque Comedy

Bax: Symphony No. 1, Mvt. III

Bruckner: Symphony No. 0, Mvt. IV

Dvorak: Symphonic Variations on an Original Theme

Elgar: Cockaigne Overture

Elgar: Crown of India Suite

Franck: Le Chasseur Maudit

Glass: Symphony No. 5, Mvts. VI & VII

Hanson: Fanfare for the Signal Corps

Honegger: Marche funebre from "Le Maries de la Tour Eiffel"

Ibert: Bacchanale

Kalinnikov: Symphony No. 1 (any/all movements)

Khachaturian: Symphony No. 2, Mvt. IV

Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 1, Mvt. I

Poulenc: La baigneuse de Trouville from "Le Maries de la Tour Eiffel"

Rachmaninoff: The Bells, Mvt. II

Rachmaninoff: Russian Song No. 3

Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2, Mvt. IV

Ravel: La Valse

Respighi: Dance of the Gnomes

Revueltas: Homanaje a Federico Garcia Lorca

Rimsky-Korsakov: Song of India from "Sadko"

Roussel: Dance of Bacchus and Ariane from "Bacchus et Ariane"

Saint-Saens: Pas Redouble

Schulhoff: Weapon Dance from "Ogelala"

Shostakovich: Attack! from "The Fall of Berlin"

Shostakovich: Ballet Suite No. 2, "Sentimental Romance"

Shostakovich: Ballet Suite No. 3, "Elegy"

Shostakovich: The Execution of Stepan Razin

Shostakovich: Moscow Cheryomushki

Shostakovich: A Tale of the Priest and His Worker, Balda

Shostakovich: Waltz No. 2 from "Suite for Variety Stage Orchestra" (formerly, erroneously, known as "Jazz Suite No. 2")

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4, Mvt. I

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, Mvt. I

Strauss: Roses from the South

Tailleferre: Valse des depeches from "Le Maries de la Tour Eiffel"

Turina: Revel from "Danzas Fantasticas"

Vaughan Williams: Beat, Beat Drums from "Dona Nobis Pacem"

Wagner: Polonia Overture

Weiner: Overture to "Prince Csongor and the Kobolds"

Zappa: G-Spot Tornado

I have edited many of these pieces into fantasy drum corps show concepts that can be listened to on my YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=orionqp&p=r, such as...

CHUPACABRA

-- Incident at Isla Nublar from "Jurassic Park" (John Williams)

-- Hippo Attack from "Congo" (Jerry Goldsmith)

-- Overture to Fausto criollo (Alberto Ginastera)

-- Homanaje e Federico Garcia Lorca (Silvestre Revueltas)

-- Piano Concerto, Movement III (Samuel Barber)

DICHOTOMY: GOOD VS. EVIL

-- Hagen's Call to His Clan from "Gotterdammerung" (Richard Wagner)

-- Sinbad Battles Kali from "Golden Voyage of Sinbad" (Miklos Rosza)

-- Gnossienne No. 4 (Erik Satie)

-- Thalaba’s Fatal Languor / Ecstasy of Faith and Love

from "Thalaba the Destroyer" (Granville Bantock)

INSURRECTION

-- The Execution of Stepan Razin (Dmitri Shostakovich)

-- Plescheyevo Lake from "Alexander Nevsky" (Sergei Prokofiev)

-- Attack from "The Fall of Berlin" (Dmitri Shostakovich)

-- Symphony No. 11, Mvt. IV (Dmitri Shostakovich)

THE LONG WAY HOME (music of Sergei Rachmaninoff)

I. Escape

-- Symphony No. 3, Mvt. I

-- Symphony No. 1, Mvt. IV, part I

-- Symphony No. 3, Mvt. III

II. Exile

-- The Bells, Mvt. II

III. Return

-- Symphony No. 1, Mvt. IV, part II

-- Symphony No. 2, Mvt. IV

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